Re: random performance problems in X

2004-06-12 Thread martin f krafft
X server from renicing itself to -10" > > So I think Adam did a good guess, despite being wrong... Yes, this is interesting information. But my X server runs at nice==0. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: random performance problems in X

2004-06-12 Thread martin f krafft
our though, would it? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/

random performance problems in X

2004-06-11 Thread martin f krafft
I just put together a machine with a 3GHz Athlon, 1Gb of 400MHz DDR-RAM and a 64 Mb dual-head ATI Radeon 7500 PCI. It's running a Debian 2.6.6-k7 kernel. The system works fine and seems pretty performant, but every now and then it does weird things. For instance, when I enter an OpenOffice.org doc

unicode problems with pasting

2004-06-11 Thread martin f krafft
ed vi editor ii rxvt-unicode 3.0-1 RXVT-like terminal emulator with Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian -

Re: copy'n'paste problems in X with UTF8

2004-06-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.09.1502 +0200]: > not working. Most of the time, only parts of the copied text are > pasted (or only parts are copied and then all pasted, I don't know), Copying from a non-UTF8 terminal window to a UTF8 one works. Cop

copy'n'paste problems in X with UTF8

2004-06-09 Thread martin f krafft
1 the XFree86 X server ii rxvt-unicode 3.0-1 RXVT-like terminal emulator with Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'`

Re: nv driver turns monitor off on X start

2004-06-05 Thread martin f krafft
not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net

Re: nv driver turns monitor off on X start

2004-06-05 Thread martin f krafft
se do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys

Re: matlab on debian

2004-06-05 Thread martin f krafft
fer. Could this be related? I am sorry, d-u for throwing questions on proprietary stuff at you, but Matlab is commonly used, and you're always so helpful! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

nv driver turns monitor off on X start

2004-06-03 Thread martin f krafft
top X. Using the vesa driver works fine, but we want/need OpenGL! Any clues? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when yo

Re: Problems with $PATH and KDE

2004-05-29 Thread martin f krafft
c.f.: http://bugs.debian.org/250765 -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a sy

Re: problem with samba, windoze -> smbfs and directories

2004-05-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.05.27.1843 +0200]: > We are running a 3.0.2a Samba server here, which works fine, except > for one detail: when a Windows users creates a folder in a "guest ok > = no" share, that folder is not accessible to Linux users

problem with samba, windoze -> smbfs and directories

2004-05-27 Thread martin f krafft
perfectly accessible to user A logged in through SSH on the Samba server, but when A is "logged in" via smbfs, permission to cd into the directory is denied. What's going on? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft &

Re: Another shell scripting question

2004-05-20 Thread martin f krafft
ists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: kernel 2.6 and memtester

2004-04-12 Thread martin f krafft
If I boot back into 2.4.25-1-k7, the three bad blocks are at the same spot as they were yesterday. But they only exist with 2.4.25. Can anyone help me make sense of this? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-11 Thread martin f krafft
with > a baseboard controller worth something). I'll think about it. How much are these hardware watchdogs, and which one would you recommend? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-11 Thread martin f krafft
ve issue than the BIOS breaking. What boot loader? Could you try another one? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you

kernel 2.6 and memtester

2004-04-11 Thread martin f krafft
I have a weird problem here: A machine with an XP 2200 downgraded to 1800 MHz, 256 Mb RAM and an nForce2 chipset. 512Mb swapspace exist. I tried the 2.6.5-1-k7 and the 2.4.25-1-k7 kernels. When I boot the former and run `memtest all`, it will try to allocate 768Mb of RAM and successively go down u

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-10 Thread martin f krafft
odules loaded. > If there any sound modules loaded that don't start with an "snd", it > will be like that. Not the case over here. :( -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.09.1859 +0200]: > How do the permissions on /dev/dsp compare to the alsa device? Both are 0660 root.audio. I am, of course, a member of audio. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. marti

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.09.1408 +0200]: > I may say that I have had sound working with ALSA previously. It > could be that the chip is hosed. Since it's a laptop, I can't > really verify that. I'll try the OSS driver when I get

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-09 Thread martin f krafft
be that the chip is hosed. Since it's a laptop, I can't really verify that. I'll try the OSS driver when I get a chance. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian devel

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.04.09.0034 +0200]: > > No. nmi_watchdog=1 means IOAPIC, nmi_watchdog=2 means LAPIC. You > > need to have the NMI Watchdog compiled into the kernel. > > This is my problem. I have looked around the LAPIC stuff and in the

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
f the other. It seems impossible to control whether APIC is used other than with the boot parameters. As I said, I tried all combinations of APIC, LAPIC, and ACPI. None of them fixed the problem. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. kra

Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

2004-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
puzzled. What can be the cause of this? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
the "extended" mode. Okay. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a syste

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
ing that gets the processor to "keep itself cool" while going > from idle to almost-full-power as a crazed rabbit will fuck the > entire system much sooner, and reduce the stability too. What? So cooling is bad? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
r, I can get them to their knees by doing something like: cd /home while true; do rsync -Pva --delete ./zope/ ./dump rsync -Pva --delete ./staff/ ./dump done Thus, an IRQ problem is not unlikely, I think. Again, thanks for your time. Take care, -- Please do not CC me when

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
e do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subke

AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-07 Thread martin f krafft
; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signatur

which RAID tools?

2004-04-04 Thread martin f krafft
old ioctl calls that are not supported beyond 2.6. So which toolset is the latest and the suggested one to use for software RAIDs? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pro

Re: Swiss Keyboard? (woody and sarge)

2004-03-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Petruzzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.03.16.0904 +0100]: > Does your list generate less than 200 mails per day? (I will have a look anyway). more like 200/year ;^> -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. kr

Re: Swiss Keyboard? (woody and sarge)

2004-03-15 Thread martin f krafft
istinfo/debian-unizh, which is not strictly UniZH, but kind of a Swiss Debian user's group centred around Zurich. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and

OT: C++ mailing list sought

2004-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
Please forgive me asking this question here. Since accu.org charges for mailing list access and the Cpp list @topica was pretty bad when I last checked it out (or is this not the case anymore?), I am looking for a C++ mailing list for general discussion and problem solving. I wouldn't mind if it's

Re: vim going autonomous on .tex files

2004-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
C me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

vim going autonomous on .tex files

2004-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
es for a lot more than just that string. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

brainstorming #3: features of a Debianer

2004-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
sed. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP su

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
for ad hoc searches and experiment around with python. Maybe I'll come back to it... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian -

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
ntire thread. The returned folder is a maildir full of > symlinks to the actual messages. Cool! I will check it out! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and us

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
with php for example)? With Zope/Python it'd be even easier and way more secure. Or you could simply add the functionality you want to Squirrelmail, rather than starting from scratch. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.20.1306 +0100]: > One of last year's Sysadmin issues (or was it USENIX's ;login:?) had > an article on mail organisation. The short story was that the guy > had his mail system configured in such a way to automati

Re: better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
mutt. Especially Kmail is not an alternative, even though it may be a good client. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when yo

better mail organisation

2004-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
d on a folder-per-list basis. I would welcome if you spotted other challenges in this approach. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `

Re: Two problems with xkb

2004-02-18 Thread martin f krafft
ing to replace xmodmap (which is the old way of doing it) with xkb, which is the new and more flexible approach. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `

Two problems with xkb

2004-02-18 Thread martin f krafft
, but when I press one of the Windows keys and e.g. 'o', I get a plain 'o', not 'รถ'. Could anyone enlighten me and help me to get this working? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAI

Re: Lilo-Guru for SoftwareRaidSetup wanted ...

2004-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
stat? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkey

brainstorming: which tool(s)/paradigm(s)?

2004-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
On a purely technical level, how can an administrator from another distribution benefit from switching to Debian? We are talking about experienced UNIX users here. Thank you for your time! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f.

brainstorming: why Debian?

2004-02-12 Thread martin f krafft
hanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? U

quotatool trouble

2004-02-10 Thread martin f krafft
quota? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? U

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-03 Thread martin f krafft
ny help I can. Thanks, Jamin. I might take you up on this. Gotte try fvwm2 one of these days... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-02 Thread martin f krafft
ay to manage. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/ex

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.02.1238 +0100]: > > That sounds very similar to the setup I have here. I am using > > Fluxbox as my WM. It's rather lightweight but has support for > > Gnome/KDE/Windowmaker applets, which is nice. > &g

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-02 Thread martin f krafft
e screen the mouse cursor is on, regardless of > focus. This is nice and exactly what I want. I will check out fluxbox I suppose. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, adm

Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-02 Thread martin f krafft
which is painful. There are like 40 or more window managers in Debian, and I really don't want to try one after the other. Thus, if you have already made experiences with window managers and multi-head configurations that don't use Xinerama, talk to me! -- Please do not CC me when replyi

global variables in shared libraries

2004-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
user code. I am not sure this is preferable. I'd be interested to hear your opinions, and how you deal with these challenges. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer,

Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.01.17.1124 +0100]: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Debian's nice in terms of dependency handling, but this really > > only applies to stable. I wonder why we don't accept the f

Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
y handling, but this really only applies to stable. I wonder why we don't accept the fact that a lot of users run a total mixture, like a stable base, with packages from testing and unstable as needed, and start thinking that way? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them!

Re: italics in openoffice not being displayed

2004-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
s; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

italics in openoffice not being displayed

2004-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
Any hints? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired

(2.6 IPsec) tcpdump: "truncated-ip - 12 bytes missing!"

2004-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, linux-kernel apparently has no answer for me, so please don't blame me for resorting to the real wise people... Using the Kame tools with the 2.6 IPsec stack, I managed to get a network-to-host tunnel set up: -- -- 10.1.2.0/24

2.6 kernel not autoloading modules

2004-01-05 Thread martin f krafft
evice: can't open /dev/video1: No such device If I `modprobe bttv` by hand, everything works fine. What am I doing wrong? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admi

Re: pam_limits setrlimit log message

2004-01-05 Thread martin f krafft
lying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pam_limits setrlimit log message

2004-01-05 Thread martin f krafft
even though limits.conf is empty. Thanks for the explanation! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better th

pam_limits setrlimit log message

2004-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, I am seeing messages of the following sort on one of my systems: pam_limits[25721]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=1000 euid=1000 The UID is mine, there are several cron processes and interactive sessions running. However, even though the

proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
necessary to fulfill the dependencies are there. So why not just fulfill them, rather than providing false information? I'd be interested in how other people think about and solve this problem. Cheers, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. mar

Which backup prog?

2003-11-18 Thread Martin F Krafft
So I appreciate any thoughts. Are there documents comparing amanda and afbackup? Which one would you recommend? And are there any other invaluable hints you might want to offer? -- Martin F. KrafftArtificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
x27;s broken anyhow. Or can anyone shed some light onto this? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better th

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.14.1130 +0100]: > You know about snapshot.debian.net, don't you? Nope. Now I do. Thanks. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-14 Thread martin f krafft
g/status wait, i kinda get it. the CVS version pushed it out. Does anyone per chance have 20.1 or later in /var/cache/apt/archives? Please upload to ftp.madduck.net/incoming, I would be eternally grateful! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-13 Thread martin f krafft
s looks alright... I am thus a little confused as to where the source of the problem lies... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - w

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.12.1818 +0100]: > I am confused. How can I print the two subpages qith equal width, so > that they fill the printable area on the sheet? I should add that it works just fine when printing to a LJ2100tn printer. magicfil

a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
ase the LLY (top) border of the medium (c.f. A4dj) from 24 to 50, but that changed nothing in the output. I am confused. How can I print the two subpages qith equal width, so that they fill the printable area on the sheet? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them!

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
ve) We are the vendor, and the two ids are not in /etc/hotplug/* at all... thanks, though... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.11.1443 +0100]: > Deinstall hotplug and rmmod the HID driver? > > Kinda drastic, though... My keyboard is usb... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL

preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
river from claiming this device? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing

OT: simple V4L camera code sought

2003-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
n replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyser

OT: TokyoLectures.org: an experiment in global teaching

2003-10-30 Thread Martin F Krafft
for the web site and the H.323 nodes? PS: Comments are, of course, always appreciated! -- Martin F. KrafftArtificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)1.63

OT: Sony StorStation LIB-D81A2-EU

2003-10-20 Thread martin f krafft
of more than 250Gb, preferably as an autoloader? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things

Re: alerting users of expiring passwords

2003-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
umDays(now() - 1970.01.01)) from it. while this is a solution, there should really be a better one. thanks though! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and use

alerting users of expiring passwords

2003-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
cable warning, e.g. a notice before every shell command, or something along those lines. The question is: how do I check whether a user's password is about to expire from a script? Or does anyone have a better solution? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .'&

libnss-pgsql: how to cache?

2003-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
ne by NSS? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system I

Re: pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
_hba.conf. Nice, but neither really solve my problem. I need SSL, and it looks like pam_pgsql wants that too. Thanks for your time! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian develope

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
ng you right: sshd 3.7 may change that? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a s

pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use sub

pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
ege separation off in SSH. Unless someone shows me some counterproof, I still believe that privsep is a rather useful addition to sshd. Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
ation: have the mailing list manager manage subscriptions as > normal, but deal with the outgoing mail using a pool of machines. This is already the case. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
t triggers last time i looked one of the many reasons why i would never run mysql. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - w

diacritics revisited

2003-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
e cause of the problem. Can someone more X-savvy possibly help me out and pinpoint the cause so that I can eliminate it? Thanks, and sorry for the long post. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
d, so 5 minutes would be okay. But I am also trying to solve the problem as cleanly as possible. You know users, if they unsubscribe and receive a mail the next minute, they are going to be annoyed. The list runs very heavy traffic. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .&#

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
list manager that can do what I need. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
one unsubscribes from the mailinglist a minute before a new mail is sent. People get annoyed about these things, trust me. And I can't run a cron script every minute. I'd much rather have the mailing list manager contact the database when it's needed. -- Please do not CC me when replying to l

seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread martin f krafft
bove? Is there a tool for that? Thanks. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

Re: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
e > Linux" that "will run every Windows application out of the box". > Did they really achieve that? No, not even close. I think they ended up giving in and dropped that line fro marketing. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. mart

OT: rfc-ignorant RBL

2003-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
, but blocking aol.com and amazon.com would be a little harsh because I doubt that the decision fuckheads there would ever consider to change it. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud De

Please retitle the thread

2003-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! pgp

Limiting users' process times

2003-09-22 Thread martin f krafft
re to share your approach with me? Also, are there other approaches, kernel patches, or cpuquota tools beside pam_limits? Thanks, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, ad

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
0/bus1/target?/lun0/generic Neither of these approaches will work as the drive is IDE behind the USB port. Thus, the system sees USB, then SCSI. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debia

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
mess, but the point is, quite some > legitimate business are blocked by DULs. Mh. I will do this: I'll turn off the dynablock RBL and see for a couple of days. If my system survives, maybe it'll be fine. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .'

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
hics? Colocate! Delays? Switch ISP! Crappy Content Filters? Switch ISP! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have be

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